Content Collector for File Systems

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Safely store and recover vital information

IBM® Content Collector for File Systems helps manage the growth and risk of file systems as part of your enterprise content management (ECM) environment. It provides tools for controlling documents on network file shares to help organizations comply with corporate and regulatory policies. IBM Content Collector for File Systems allows you to efficiently store, manage and recover information across the enterprise.

Content Collector for File Systems enables you to:

Manage compliance requirements by taking advantage of IBM eDiscovery software and record creation features.
Gain centralized policy management with common rules and policies for collecting and archiving content.
Optimize business processes through high-performance document management.
Improve storage management with smart archiving and deduplication features.

Manage compliance requirements

Helps you monitor, protect, control and report information to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
Integrates with IBM eDiscovery Manager and IBM eDiscovery Analyzer software, enabling you to respond to litigation, investigations, audits and information inquiries.
Dynamically declares collected content as a record using IBM Enterprise Records.

Gain centralized policy management

Permits sophisticated and targeted file handling using an advanced rules engine.
Classifies content based on metadata using the IBM Classification Module.
Provides seamless integration with classification and records with task routing architecture.

Optimize business processes

Automatically captures documents as they are placed in a monitored location on the file share.
Scales to support collection and archiving of high volumes of file system content.
Allows documents to be left in place, moved, flagged or replaced with shortcuts so users can find previously loaded content.

Improve storage management

Provides smart archiving and deduplication to reduce infrastructure costs associated with the management and retention of file systems and other content.
Is part of the IBM Content Analytics for Assessment solution, which enables content decommissioning, and helps preserve and exploit relevant information.
Helps reduce the overhead and cost of saving unclassified information.

Content Collector for File Systems resources

Analyst report: 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management
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Demo: IBM ECM products
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Analyst report: Information Governance Benchmark Report in Global 1000 Companies
Read this Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC) report for corporate perspectives on information governance, e-discovery and records management.